NAME
WebService::Yahoo::BOSS - Interface to the Yahoo BOSS API
SYNOPSIS
use WebService::Yahoo::BOSS;
# props out to the original boss Bruce Springsteen
$Boss = WebService::Yahoo::BOSS->new( appid => $appid );
$res = $Boss->Web( query => 'microbrew award winner 2010',
exclude => 'pilsner', );
# todo - add pluggable xml/json parser
foreach my $hit ( @{$res ) {
print $hit->url, $hit->title; # etc..
}
DESCRIPTION
This API wraps the Yahoo BOSS (Build Your Own Search) web service API.
Mad props to Yahoo for putting out a premium search api which encourages
innovative use.
For more information check out the following links. This is a work in
progress, so patches welcome!
The low level request structure is as follows:
http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/{vertical}/v1/{query}?appid=xyz[&param1=val1&param2=val2&etc]
SEE ALSO
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_guide/overview.html
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AUTHOR
"Fred Moyer",
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2010 by Silver Lining Networks
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.1 or, at
your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.